Tag: Alejandro de la Fuente

  • “Becoming Free, Becoming Black” tells the story of enslaved and free people of color who used the law to claim freedom and citizenship for themselves and their loved ones. Their communities challenged slaveholders’ efforts to make blackness synonymous with slavery.

  • Alejandro de la Fuente and George Reid Andrews offer the first systematic, book-length survey of humanities and social science scholarship on the exciting field of Afro-Latin American studies.

  • Variations on racial tension The Harvard Gazette 2016-02-26 John Laidler, Harvard Correspondent For every nation, a different set of challenges, panelists say A panel discussion Wednesday highlighted striking contrasts in how nations perceive and grapple with racial inequality. Tracing evolving attitudes toward race and discrimination in Latin America, Europe, and the United States, a trio…

  • Amid sweeping changes in US relations, Cuba’s race problem persists Al Jazeera America 2015-08-13 Julia Cooke In 1959, Fidel Castro said he would work to erase racial discrimination, but inequality is still widespread Official Cuban census figures say black and mixed-heritage people are about 35 percent of the island’s population, but a quick stroll around…

  • Myths of Racial Democracy: Cuba, 1900-1912 Latin American Research Review Volume 34, Number 3 (1999) pages 39-73 Alejandro de la Fuente, UCIS Research Professor of History University of Pittsburgh This article reviews the recent literature on the so-called myths of racial democracy in Latin America and challenges current critical interpretations of the social effects of…